Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-08

ter the same parties, we don't jine the same
churches, an tharis more or less trouble
a.gwine on between us an them continnerly.o
sThcn when the war broke out you took
different sides, as usual.'
aOf course! of course The big Niger
owners AM the ornery whites, who air jest ez
much ther slaves ez eff they'd been bot an
Maid fur with Their own money, became red
hot Secessioners, while our people stuck ter
the Union. The very old satan hisself seemed
ter take possession ov em and stir EN- up ter
do all manner O cruelty ter conquer us inter
jinin in with 'em. The Drills an FORMERS
he'd alters been leaders agin the other people,
an now the Confederates Missed their white
slaves onter our men, ez one sets dogs onter
steers in the corn. The chief man among
'em wus Kunnel Bill Pennington"
Harry looked up with start.
.sYes, the same one who got his reward Yes
terday," she continued, interpreting the ex
preston of his ewes. THE Penningtons air
the richest family this side o Danville. They
an the Drills an the FORMERS hev alters been
mortal enemies Thars bin blood shed in
ev'ry gineration kumel Bills father limpt
ter his grave on count of a bullet in his hip,
which wuz lodged thar soon arter I'd flung on
the floor $40 gold piece he'd crowded inter
my hand al a dance, where he'd come ithout
ary invite. Tire bullet was from the rifle of
Young man named David Brill, tibet | mar
ried the next day, jest ez he WIZ startin' fur
Mexico. He volunteered little airlier then
he'd intended, fur his fathers wheat wuz not
nearly all harvested, but hit wuz thot best
ter git himself out o the way o the Penning-
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an besides they then he'd the law on Their side
Ez soon ez he come back from the war Ole
kunnel Bill an Young kunnel Bill, an all
the rest o. the Pennington clan an connee-
ton began watchin' fur a chance ter git even
with him The Ole kunnel used ter VOW an
swar tibet he'd never leave the airth ontil
Dave Brill wuz under the clods o the valley.
But he he'd ter go last year, spite o hisself,
an leave David Brill live an well an becom-
in more an more loolt up ter ev'ry day by
the people, while the Penningtons war gittin'
wuss and wuSs hated. We he'd a son, too
the very apple of our eyes, who WIZ CROWN
up, jest like his father
The auaver OF an ill-repressed sob blurred
the tones. She closed her eyes firmly, as if
to choke back the trimming tears, and then
rising from her seat busted herself brushing
the Goals and ashes back into the fire.
Tibet walnut pops so awfully," she said,
tibet a body heZ TO sweep nearly ev'ry minnit
Ter keep the harth at all clean.
"The death of his father made no change in
the Younger Col Pennington? He kept up
| the quarrel the same as ever, did her asked
| Harry, deeply interested in the narrative.
"Wussen everl Wussen ever! He got bit
terer evry day. He laid his defeat when he
WIZ runnin' fur the legislator at our door
He hired bullies ter git inter quarrel with
| David, at public getherin's, an kill him in
sech a way ez ter hev a plea o self defense
ter cl'ar themselves on; but David TUX too
| good keer o hisself ter get ketched that
away, an he hurt one o the bullies so bad
tibet he niver quite got over hit. He and
| kunnel Pennington leveled their weapons on
each other at a barbecue near London last
fall. hut the byStanders interfered an pre-
vented bloodshed fur time
when the war broke ont We never be
| heved hit would reach us Thar mout be
trouble in Louisville and Cincinnati-some
even thot hit likely that thar would be
fouteH in Lexington-but way up in tbs
mountifgs we'd be peaceable an safe alters.
Our young men formed themselves inter a
company Of home guards, an elected my
| husband their Capting. kunnel Pennington
| gathered together bout hundred o the
| poorest, orneriest shakes on the headwater<
an tuck them off ter jine Sidney Johnson
an drive the Yankees way from Louisville
| Everybody said hit wuz the best radiance o
bad rubbish the countryd ever knowed, and
when they wuz gone our chances fur peace
seemed hett-r'n ever.